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Ded Moroz, who like Santa Claus gives children presents during the festive period, receives almost 200,000 letters and postcards annually. The main holiday season miracle maker in Russia gets letters from every corner of Russia. People of all ages write to Ded Moroz. Russians send letters to Ded Moroz's official residence in Veliky Ustyug, in the northeast corner of the Vologda Region in the north of European Russia.
The State Council meeting on the development of the volunteer movement and socially oriented non-profit organisations was held by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin, Moscow.
The famous concert artists from France Lyudmila Berlinskaya and Arthur Ancelle will perform in the concert hall of the Vologda Philharmonic Society. The piano duo is valued for its unique interpretations, ideal teamwork and rich timbre palette.
Russian Ded Moroz lit up the first New Year’s tree in Veliky Ustyug on his birthday, on November 18th, and set off for his pre-New Year journey. By tradition, a lot of guests came to Veliky Ustiug for Ded Moroz’s birthday. His friends and colleagues from other Russian cities and the near abroad gathered there.
Kalil Amar Wilson is an American vocalist, pianist, songwriter, and ethnomusicologist. Wilson began singing as a child with the Oakland Youth Chorus, studied at the UC Berkeley Young Musicians Program, and graduated magna cum laude from the UCLA Music and Ethnomusicology Departments.
The Museums of the Russian North is a major culture grant programme of Severstal, focused on supporting the development of arts museums in the north of Russia.
Ray Brown Jr. was born in New York City and raised in a family of musical royalty (the son of singer Ella Fitzgerald and legendary jazz bass player Ray Brown).
The Federal Agency for Tourism of the Russian Federation named the best regions of Russia among the participants of the federal target program "Development of Domestic and Inbound Tourism in Russia" in 2018. Deputy Governor of the Vologda Region Oleg Vasiliev took part in the meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Olga Golodets.
On December 18th Vologda Region Governor Oleg Kuvshinnikov handed over the keys of several new emergency vehicles to districts of the Vologda Oblast.
Veliky Ustyug is in the list of Russia's cities that are most popular destinations for New Year holidays, according to a study conducted by e-service for searching hotels Tvil.ru.